Compliance

Labor unions have spent months complaining the new law will drive up the costs of certain health plans that are jointly administered by unions and smaller employers.

The overall bill would prohibit workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

As it turns out, policy cancellations will affect less than 4 percent of Americans those who buy individual health insurance directly, rather than the 80 percent who get it from their jobs or government programs, or the 15 percent who have no health insurance at all.

A little more than three months into the tenure of Thomas Perez, the departments agenda has in many areas continued on the path set by his predecessor.

A major gay rights bill has cleared its first hurdle in the Senate.

Gay rights advocates from both parties are newly upbeat about the prospects for Senate passage of legislation that would bar employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.